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Washington, DC - Today, the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) - the State Department's flagship leadership program in Southeast Asia - will celebrate its fourth anniversary. To mark the occasion, emerging leaders in all ASEAN member countries will implement community service projects, December 1-10, throughout their local, national, and regional communities. This dynamic campaign, collectively known as YOUnified, will bring leaders together with U.S. diplomatic missions for 10 days of high-impact projects.

Reno, Nevada - A former employee at a Lake Tahoe children's ski school was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for child sexual exploitation, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.

Carson City, Nevada - Governor Brian Sandoval issued the following statement upon hearing the news of the passing of Joe Crowley. Mr. Crowley was the University of Nevada, Reno's longest serving president and a community leader.

Washington, DC - Developing an agile process for funding experimental research capabilities in the mid-scale range. The National Science Foundation's science and engineering activities rely increasingly on infrastructure that is diverse in space, cost and implementation time - everything from major observatories to nationwide sensor networks to smaller experiments.

Las Vegas, Nevada - Exploiting quantum mechanics to observe, manipulate, and control the behavior of particles and energy at atomic and subatomic scales, resulting in next-generation technologies for sensing, computing, modeling, and communicating.